Adobe Muse on HTML5 in 24 Hours

Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 - What Web Designers Will Like

Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:46:46 +0000

Adobe has announced a bunch of updates to the Adobe Creative Cloud. The biggest changes are that they are releasing updates to 15 apps within the Creative Cloud as well as including a new service: Adobe Stock.

If you had Creative Cloud last year, you may remember the day when your hard drive space was sucked up by an entire new copy of all your Adobe applications. If you had a gigantic hard drive, you may not have noticed, but if your laptop is like mine, the 40GB you had free was suddenly not nearly enough. Yes, I appreciated the ability to check things in the old version of Photoshop CC and Dreamweaver CC, but when I couldn’t save any files because my hard drive was full, the duplicate copies of the apps got annoying. This year, Adobe has learned from that mistake and is making the way you install the new version an option. In other words, if you want the old version side-by-side with the new, you can do that. But if you just want your current version to update to the latest version, you can do that instead. Thanks for listening Adobe!

Adobe Enters the Stock Photo Business

The big news of interest to web designers is that Adobe is now entering the stock photo business. Last year they purchased Folia, and now they are integrating that service into the Creative Cloud in the form of Adobe Stock. With this service, Adobe customers will be able to purchase stock photos and illustrations right from within the Creative Cloud products. Plus, as a Creative Cloud member, you will get access to reduced prices on the images.

If you are a photographer or illustrator you will be pleased to learn that Adobe will also be paying for stock photos and illustrations. They plan to offer competitive royalties for creatives that add to the Adobe Stock library. This is great news for designers who also sell photographs or illustrations.

Android Apps Finally Available

If you use an Android device you will finally be able to use Brush, Shape, and Color on your devices. This has been a long wait, but these apps as well as the new app, Hue, are available on the Android store.

Changes to Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver CC (2015) adds some new features. Nothing really groundbreaking, but will make some web development tasks a bit easier. Some of the new features include:

Integration with Adobe Stock You can now find the perfect images for the websites you are building from right within Dreamweaver. Adobe Stock is new with this release, but there are already over 40 million images to choose from. Single images are not cheap, but if you’re already a Creative Cloud member, you can get 10 images a month for around $3 an image (10 per month for $29.99). Plus, if you use less than your 10 in a month, they roll over up to 120 images.
Preview on Any Device As long as your devices are all on the same WiFi network, you can use either a QR code or type in a URL on your devices to view your Dreamweaver pages on them. You can also inpect the elements on the devices and preview on multiple devices at once. When you make changes in Dreamweaver, they are instantly updated on the devices.
Bootstrap Starter Templates You can now create responsive websites with Bootstrap components using built in Bootstrap starter templates.
Batch Extract from PSDs With the Extract feature, you could extract images from a Photoshop file. But now you can extract multiple images at once using the batch extract feature. This will make getting production-ready images that much faster.
Code editor tab completion even more robust Now you can use shortcuts to create common, complex blocks of code. Things like nav>ul>li.link{Link $}*5 turns into a 5-element unordered list each with a class of “link” e.g.
```
<ul>
	<li class="link">Link 1</li>
	<li class="link">Link 2</li>
	<li class="link">Link 3</li>
	<li class="link">Link 4</li>
	<li class="link">Link 5</li>
</ul>
```
Shortcuts in CSS too I used to use TextExpander for all my CSS and HTML shortcuts, but now Dreamweaver has a bunch built in. This will make it that much faster to write HTML and CSS in the code editor. They use Emmet for code completion and there are lots of shortcuts you can learn.
Link checks your code for you As you type your HTML and CSS, Lint inside Dreamweaver CC (2015) checks your code and validates that it is correct. It will highlight incorrect lines in red, and if you click on them you will get more information about what the problem is so you can fix it.

There are lots of other small features added to Dreamweaver, but those are the highlights.

Changes to Muse

Adobe Muse has also been updated in the 2015 release. Like Dreamweaver, you can now get stock photos from Adobe Stock right inside Muse CC (2015). You can also get Adobe Typekit fonts right from within Muse.

The widgets panel now includes shopping carts and RSS blog feeds. You can even style the feeds you pull in. There are lots of widgets both free and paid that you can use to improve your site. I am happy to say that you can finally add radio buttons and checkboxes to contact forms in Muse. This makes it easier to get more accurate information from your form submissions.

CC 2015 Release is Pretty Exciting

CreativeSync is a very useful tool to keep your files and images up-to-date across all your computers and devices. I have already created documents on my laptop and then finished them on my desktop as well as worked with images on my iPad that I finished on my laptop or desktop. It’s a very convenient feature.

There are updates to the following apps in Creative Cloud (2015):

AfterEffects
Audition
Dreamweaver
Edge Animate
Flash
Illustrator
InCopy
InDesign
Lightroom
Media Encoder
Muse
Photoshop
Prelude
Premiere Pro
SpeedGrade

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Updates from Adobe - a Fun New Adobe App

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:50:51 +0000

Adobe released a number of new apps and features today at the MAX convention. There are some new features in Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, and Premiere Pro CC. But the ones I found most interesting were the changes to Muse CC, Dreamweaver CC, and the new free Apps for iOS.

Muse CC

Muse finally has secure FTP support which I find very important. In fact some of the servers I work on don’t allow any connection other than secure FTP - which meant until now I couldn’t use Muse for them. It also now has Find and Replace. This is a critical feature for web editors as when you’re working on a large site it can be difficult to know you’ve found all the instances you need to change if you have to do it by hand. For one site I worked on, we had to provide discounts to customers because one page listed the price from the previous year, and we didn’t catch it when we updated the site with the new price. Another great new feature of Muse CC is the SVG import. Now you can create your images as vector graphics and import them directly into your web page. This is great for doing prototyping in Illustrator and then moving directly to the website. SVG images give you so many options beyond the standard web images.

Dreamweaver CC

Dreamweaver CC doesn’t have a lot of updates this time, but there are a few that are interesting. It has 64-bit support, plus they updated Live View. You can now edit while in Live View - which is a huge improvement. I hardly ever leave Live View now. I love that you can drag and drop images into Live View—so much easier to do! There are also a bunch of new starter templates you can use to create different kinds of pages including Responsive Web Designs.

Mobile Apps

But beyond Dreamweaver and Muse, Adobe now offers a bunch of mobile apps that all connect with your Creative Cloud account to allow you access to your creations from any device. There are three new apps in this release:

Adobe Premiere Clip
Brush CC
Shape CC

The one I’m most interested in is Brush CC.

Brush CC

Brush is a new app that will help you create your own custom brushes right on your iPad or iPhone. You start by creating a line or shape or whatever you want as a brush. Then you can modify it so that it displays exactly as you want it to. You can adjust things like:

display as a ribbon, or just a scattering of marks
color or black and white
have it repeat linearly, mirrored, or stretch to fit the space
crop it to make it a seamless brush or your own dotted line
add transparency
have the ends fade in and out or taper

There are endless ways to create your brushes.

Then, once you’ve created your brush, you can save it to your Creative Cloud library and use it in Photoshop CC and other connected applications. I can see myself spending a lot of time in this app.

Download Brush CC from iTunes

Shape CC

This is another new app that looks like it could be a lot of fun. However in my first attempt at using it, I found it fairly difficult. There is no image stabilization, so I found it difficult to focus on just the item I wanted. It also took me a while to figure out how to edit my shapes, and when the vectors were too connected, it was difficult to get just the lines I wanted and none that I didn’t. However, I then imported my shape into Illustrator without an issue.

There are no pre-defined shapes in Shape CC but it is reasonably easy to use other than the above concerns, I created two new shapes very quickly.

Download Shape CC from iTunes

Comments:

nick Jubrey - Oct 2, 2014

Thanks for the update. Still using cc for now.

Sorry for the delay — I didn't forget the giveaway

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:34:25 +0000

Life just got the better of me for a while there. I’m happy to say that I’m nearly caught up. Now that school has started I might have a little more time. :-) But you don’t care about that, you want to know who won!

[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“132”] Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand by Perspection Inc. and Steve Johnson

The following people won a copy of the book Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand:

Leigh C-M
Janet
Sunday ayodele
Lisa Vincent
Karen

and…

[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“113”] Adobe Muse on Demand by Ted LoCascio

The following people won a copy of the book Adobe Muse on Demand:

Aggrey
Yussuf Olawale Afeez
Sudheer Marath
Kenny SILVA
Deb Tilton

I’ll be contacting you directly to get your mailing address and get it off to my editor. If you don’t hear from me within 10 hours, please contact me directly.

Comments:

Sunday Ayodele - Sep 5, 2012

I am so much thank Mrs Jennifer Kyrnin for her faithfulness to the said giveaway in which i am fortunate to be one of the winners.Enormous vote of thanks to you.

Sudheer Marath - Jul 1, 2013

I am so much thankful to Mrs Jennifer Kyrnin for her faithfulness to the said giveaway in which i am fortunate to be one of the winners.Enormous vote of thanks to you.

Sudheer Marath - Jul 3, 2013

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Tools to Write HTML5 and Another Giveaway

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:58:48 +0000

I’ve been building web pages since 1995 or 1996, and as such I am very comfortable inside the HTML. And when I started building pages, at first there were no editors dedicated to writing HTML, and then when they came along, they were text editors. Writing web pages visually, like in a word processor, was unheard of.

When visual web editors came on the market, they produced HTML that was a tangled mess of tags and characters, and they were very difficult to decipher. Plus, they would often not work as well outside the editor (i.e. inside a customer’s web browser) as they did in. So, I, like most designers of that time, quickly learned to distrust WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors.

But, if you do the math, that was over 15 years ago. And the market is starting to catch up. In fact, Adobe has two products that create great HTML5 web pages without any or with very little interaction with the HTML code: Adobe Muse and Adobe Dreamweaver. I have tried out both of these products, and while they are definitely aimed at different markets, they are both great.

These two books will help you get started with these tools:

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 On Demand and Adobe Muse On Demand

Before you decide if these books are useful to you, you should check out a free chapter:

[Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand Chapter 2: “Getting Started with Dreamweaver CS6”](https://www.html5in24hours.com/chapters/Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand chapter 2.pdf “Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand Chapter 2”)
[Adobe Muse On Demand Chapter 6: “Working with Graphic Styles and Effects”](https://www.html5in24hours.com/chapters/Adobe Muse On Demand Chapter 6.pdf “Adobe Muse on Demand Chapter 6”)

Another Giveaway!

Comments:

Karen - Aug 0, 2012

Dear Jennifer Thank you so much for this article, and for the giveaways. I am a stay-at-home mom and I’d like to learn how to create websites as a way to make a little extra income. I’d love to receive a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 On Demand. I have been trying to get on a course to learn to use Dreamweaver for about a year now without any success. The course nearby keeps getting cancelled as there are not enough students who enrol each time, and so the course gets postponed. As I say, it’s been almost a year that I have been enrolling and being put off until the next time. If I could have a copy of the book, I could start training myself instead. Thank you so much!

Deb Tilton - Aug 1, 2012

I would like to learn desktop publishing. there are a lot of things you can use it for and I would like to get started.

Duane Spurlock - Aug 1, 2012

I like how each of these chapters is organized according to a step-by-step principle, suitable for novices: no prerequisite knowledge need be brought to these books by the reader. In a world filled with ever-more-complex applications and upgrades, finding the right book for dipping one’s toes into the water (to mix a metaphor) is increasingly difficult. That said, I prefer the Dreamweaver book. I come from a cut-and-paste publishing background, and I can fumble my way through designing a document with InDesign, but web design still eludes me. This chapter on Dreamweaver looks like an excellent introduction for my skill level (which, to be honest, is somewhere in a sub-basement). Thanks for sharing!

Sudheer Marath - Aug 1, 2012

Thanks Jennifer for your good work.I read both Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 On Demand and Adobe Muse On Demand free chapters. It was one of the best ever book i have read in my entire life. Now a days it is very difficult to get such kind of books with it’s simplicity, professional style and presentation of each topic. Firstly I want to have the Dreamweaver CS6 book. I’ll be lucky if i get a chance to get both of these books. I will surely recommend these books to my friends. Thank you.

Yussuf Olawale Afeez - Aug 1, 2012

I like Adobe CS6 very because i’ve been using CS for a long time so i like to know what’s latest in CS6, though will like to know what adobe muse is all about

Aggrey - Aug 1, 2012

Hi, There are many tools which have sprung up especially in the area of designing websites using code. I have been working with HTML and at the moment trying out PHP. This means that I really need to study and practice using code because at the moment I am a graphic designer with good graphic design skills. Regards Aggrey

Barbara Fay - Aug 2, 2012

Dear Jennifer, •Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand Chapter 2: “Getting Started with Dreamweaver CS6” is a treasure! I and six of my gal pals, ages 68-84, have dabbled with creating websites to post our blogs and sell unique greeting cards. We collaborate on line to edit each other’s work. This book would be of great value to our group. I am confident that this program could help us upgrade our skills and launch more effective website pages. What I appreciate about chapter two is the format. The directions, hints, options and examples are all provided in well written english on pages with plenty of white space. That is a welcome contrast to other titles with long paragraphs of dense tecnical language.

Densie - Aug 2, 2012

Thanks for your articles and for the giveaways. I would love a copy of Dreamweaver CS6 as I have just taken a position in our ecommerce department and while I learned HTML some time ago, I never used dreamweaver and I’m playing catch up. I think the book would come in handy.

Omar Owens - Aug 2, 2012

Hello Miss Kyrnin, I would love the Dreamweaver book to futher my knowlegde with the software. I also may be taking the class in the near future so i would olove the chance to read ahead. Thank you in advance! Omar

gabriela avina - Aug 2, 2012

Hi Jenifer, I would like a copy of the book. Graphic designer and I’m very interested in what the interent page design. Every time I read your page and learn something new. Here is a page that I’m doing to my husband …… I have still much to learn. The practice is the key but I need a good guide as your website and a good book. thanks

Jennifer Kyrnin - Aug 2, 2012

@gabriela avina Which book did you want? Thanks!

Jennifer Kyrnin - Aug 2, 2012

@Densie to be clear: this is a BOOK giveaway, not the Dreamweaver software.

Leigh C-M - Aug 3, 2012

Hello Jennifer, Have just finished reading the chapter from Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 On Demand. This sounds like my kind of book. I love the way the pages are set out, including two columns of text to a page. However, I do prefer text to be formatted to the right as well as left. It just looks neater in my opinion! All the little extra tips, how to do (and what not to do)items really make this book. I am about to design a website from scratch for a not-for-profit community family history group, and the book may be my saving grace, as I have very little experience in this field. As a volunteer for this project, I shall keep my fingers crossed that I am lucky enough to win one of the books. Keep up the good work!

R. Gary Rasmussen - Aug 3, 2012

Hi Jennifer, Web development is not a part of my job description. I work for the American Meteorological Society (a nonprofit organization) and my main responsibility is to help get the three main sectors of our community (academic, for-profit, and government) to stop squabbling with one another and work together for the common good of the community, and the nation. One way to do this is to hold face-to-face meetings where people can discuss common issues and problems. To facilitate networking among the attendees before, during, and after these meetings I have created a web site that provides photos, business cards, and bios of the people attending the meetings. I don’t use either of these expensive Adobe products (yet) but would like to study the books to see if investing in one or both would be a good use of our scarce resources. Thanks for your blog, and your About.com articles. They are a huge help! gary

Lisa Vincent - Aug 3, 2012

Hi Jennifer, I have learned so much from your “About Web Design” emails (articles) and I enjoy receiving them. I would be thrilled to be selected to receive a copy of the book Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 On Demand.

William - Aug 3, 2012

Hi Jennifer, I’ve been reading your articles for a few years now, and I’ve even taken your xhtml and css courses. I’ve learned a lot and have been inspired to start a freelance web design company. I plan to open for business before the end of the year. I own Dreamweaver, but I still have much to learn. No doubt, the Dreamweaver book will be a major help. I would love to have a free copy of the Dreamweaver book. William

alice Loddigs - Aug 4, 2012

Thanks so much for all your helpful articles. Both of these books look interesting, I want them both! but I would definitely start with the book on Dreamweaver, because it is the software I have and use. The improvements look interesting and encouraging, and the book very readable and useful.

Sunday ayodele - Aug 4, 2012

Hello jennifer,i’ll be so much happy to get the DreamWeaver cs6 or to get the both because i can’t afford to let your potential books pass me by without my landmark on them.i am also a young web designer following the great strides of achievers like jennifer kyrnin & other local professionals in my locality.i had also messaged you in your facebook message box.pls try & check it.i and my classmates have made you as our super model.i gave my coursemates your website address,even lecturers respect me for my ardent research when i recommended it for them.they feedback me with awesome testimonies.pls i seriously need the both books.the simplicity of the book is amazing.thank

Enrique - Aug 4, 2012

Hi Jennifer, I have seen both free chapters and they were really good. But I’d like the Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand. I think that the explanation how to use that software is very clear and it’s a good way to learn it. Does the books are e-books? Thanks for the oportunity to participate. Enrique

Janet - Aug 6, 2012

Thanks for the giveaway. I wish to get Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand because I just quited my flash designer job and wish to look for web designing job. I Would like to take this break to refresh & brush up my Dreamweaver skill and builds portfolio before start to find job. The last time I learnt was using Dreamweaver Cs2. So I hope I will have this book to startup. =)

Kenny SILVA - Sep 2, 2012

Seems that is a bit late but I am one of those dreamers that never give up! I would love to have a copy of those books since I started a small business that (God willing) will become a franchise. My designer went back to his country and still looking for a responsible one. I realized that I cannot depend on them and need to learn ASAP. Please have me in consideration for your giveaway. Thank you for your work and congratulations Kenny Silva Producer